Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale, at least, will be well practiced in the six-man style of play if the team makes its proposed trip to Canada during the Christmas vacation. At the plans now stand at Yale, the hockey team will make the longest trip yet undertaken by an American college seven to play games in Montreal and Toronto with McGill and Toronto universities...
Football, the most strenuous of American out-door sports, claimed five victims during the 1919 season. The number of deaths--the smallest in years--was five less than in 1918, and seven under the toll of two years ago. There were 18 lives lost during the 1916 season...
...reply to a request from the University tennis management for the attitude of the United States Lawn Tennis Association in regard to the awarding of a major letter, Mr. S. Wallace Merrihew, editor of "American Lawn Tennis," official organ of the U. S. N. L. T. A., wrote as follows...
...anxious to do everything possible to accomplish this. You can therefore rely on whole-hearted assistance from us. I want nothing more than to have you send me the article which you speak of on this subject, and we will publish it in 'American Lawn Tennis' thus starting a vigorous campaign along these lines. I believe that in this way something worth while can be accomplished. Similar efforts are being made at many other colleges and full publicity to the movement will be given through the Association in 'American Lawn Tennis...
There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...